Astronomical observations with the Danish telescope at the ESO / La Silla observatory 2025

The danish telescope at the ESO/La Silla observatory in Chile has been a flag-ship instrument for the acquisition of high-quality, time-domain astrophysical data in the field of extrasolar planets, asteroids, stars and artificial satellites. This field trip will enable continued observations of astrophysical objects and aims to report the results to the general public.

Available instruments:

* DFOSC imaging camera (Filter wheel B; Halpha, empty, U, B, V, R, I; Filter Wheel A: Strømgren uvby, CN, OIII, empty).

* EMCCD Two-Color Instrument (TCI) red and vis camera.

* DFOSC spectrograph.

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Documentation:

* https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/

* https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/lasilla/telescopes/national.html

* https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2015/02/aa25260-14/aa25260-14.html

* https://space.asu.cas.cz/~dk154/telstatus.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Silla_Observatory

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Grant period: 01. April 2025 - 31. October 2025.

Grant URL: https://carlsbergfondet.dk/ansoeger/feltekspeditioner-forskningsophold-loebende/

Project URL: http://www.mindstep-science.org/

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Acknowledgments:

The work presented here is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, grant CF25-0040.

The Seestar S50 telescope was purchased with the support of the N.P. Wieth-Knudsen Observatory Foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsberg_Foundation

https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en